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This post is a run down of the expository essay ‘smart’ project on TheRightMargin’s writing platform. Smart projects are tailored writing spaces for a specific genre complete with custom guidance, suggested goals and tasks, and a unique writing space. If you’re a student, a teacher or in the edtech industry, you may find something of interest in this post to help improve student writing skills and facilitate your writing curriculum. This is new writing technology that may help alleviate some of the pain points we see in writing essays today.

In the first part of this two-part series, we took a look at some of the ‘basic mechanics’ of indie publishing, in terms of best practices. In this post, we’ll look at the end game for publishers—the best practices for getting your book in front of readers.

Distribution

Once you have your manuscript edited, laid out nicely, and accompanied by an amazing cover with a brilliant book description, it’s time to face the world.

Distribution can be tricky for indie authors, if only because there are so many options available. And there are questions:

Should I go wide (target distribution to multiple retailers) or stay exclusive (stick with a single retailer)?

Should I use an aggregate distributor to reach multiple eBook retailers, or should I go direct to each vendor?

It’s hard enough to keep yourself on track to write and complete a book (though it’s a lot easier thanks to TheRightMargin). Once you have the manuscript finished, the question becomes “What do I do with it?” or “Is publishing my work the next step?”. In this two part guest-post, we’ll answer that and give you some best practice methods for launching your indie author career on the right foot.

Where do you start?

There are a lot of directions you can roam once your manuscript is complete, and one of the most popular is indie publishing. Going indie offers some advantages over traditional publishing in terms of keeping the rights to your work, and even making higher royalties per sale. But along with those perks comes the overhead of publishing—all the steps that would typically be handled by a publisher are now your responsibility.

That may sound a bit scary, but it doesn’t have to be. Let’s look at a few best practices for indie publishing and see exactly what you may be in for.

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